We asked the Cabinet Office how it intended to meet its target for 2030. The Cabinet Office was clear that the target would be challenging to meet. To do so, it told us that government would need to take a fundamentally different approach to cyber security. The Cabinet Office was designing this new approach, which it said would focus on what the centre of government could do to bring about change. Its plans included strengthening accountability, setting requirements for departments and measur...

We asked the Cabinet Office how it intended to meet its target for 2030. The Cabinet Office was clear that the target would be challenging to meet. To do so, it told us that government would need to take a fundamentally different approach to cyber security. The Cabinet Office was designing this new approach, which it said would focus on what the centre of government could do to bring about change. Its plans included strengthening accountability, setting requirements for departments and measuring their performance against them, and providing services “once and well” from the centre of government to the public sector. The Cabinet Office gave th Type: conclusion | Number: 33 | Response status: not_addressed Government response: 6.1 The government agrees with the Committee’s recommendation. Target implementation date: Winter 2025 6.2 Work is underway to define a future Target Operating Model for Cyber and Digital Resilience, which will set out how government and the public sector should